Copyright-trolls: mind your own extra-judicial business, court says(arstechnica.com) |
Copyright-trolls: mind your own extra-judicial business, court says(arstechnica.com) |
"Unfortunately, it would appear that the technology that enables copyright infringement has outpaced technology that prevents it."
It's crazy to see that judges are wising up to the antics of the recording and motion picture industries.
I know PG is looking for a way to radically disrupt the way these giants do things, and I think the current state of our culture and judicial system creates an opportune moment for a new startup to do just that.
Neither the RIAA or the MPAA are involved in the bittorrent lawsuits. The big lawsuit that really kicked it off was over The Hurt Locker, which isn't an MPAA-affiliated movie. It was kick-started by a lawyer named Thomas Dunlap, who worked out the idea with Uwe Boll for his shitty movies. The RIAA stopped going after file-sharers when its lead attorney, Donald Verrilli, was appointed by Obama to be Solicitor General. That alone was more than they wanted.
All of these mass lawsuits are the idea of small, sometimes desperate lawyers, not content providers or publishers. Most of the lawsuits, including the one in this article, are over porn downloads; porn is obviously not an MPAA endpoint.
Still is interesting to see that times are-a changin' and it appears that the courts are now starting to realize that.
(http://ia700706.us.archive.org/14/items/gov.uscourts.cand.24...)